Mark Richt fired at Georgia

[CoachCB]

Where is all of the public outcry for this decision? I don't see Georgia catching heat for firing a successful coach. Richt was very successful, great winning percentage and his dismissal is barely a blip on the radar.....whereas Les Miles potential dismissal drew a week-long media explosion.

Les won a National Championship.....Richt shit the bed.

But it has been on the radar. SDS has a big article on Saban's comments on it "What is our profession coming to?" or something like that.

The AJC writers all agree w/ the decision. In fact, fans have been calling for his head for years. Les not so much (maybe from a few retard fans).

 

[EasyMoney]

Michigan and Florida very happy today

also think this gives Tide a legit shot at Nauta

Not really. Michigan already has one of the top qb commits coming in and he is enrolling early. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't turn Eason away but he is a necessity at this point. Especially with only 6 or so spots left and we are still going after a bunch of elite recruits. I would say it helps Michigan out more with Nauta then Eason. And Mecole Hardman who is a 5* out of georgia and was in Ann Arbor this past weekend.

 

[WinOne]

Les won a National Championship.....Richt shit the bed.

But it has been on the radar. SDS has a big article on Saban's comments on it "What is our profession coming to?" or something like that.

The AJC writers all agree w/ the decision. In fact, fans have been calling for his head for years. Les not so much (maybe from a few retard fans).

And in a much weaker SEC East. I think there was a blow up a few weeks back when there was rumblings of coordinators threatening to jump ship or calling out one another. I think this was probably in the works for a while. Cant get embarrassed by both Bama and UF and not be competitive. AD has to go to boosters for $$$, boosters want to see results.

 

[Acebb]

I heard Les Miles is interested

@)

 

[rolltide]

today's installment of "Blame it on Saban"

How Nick Saban's dominance impacted coaching futures of Mark Richt, Les Miles

By Dan Wetzel17 hours agoYahoo Sports

Each situation is unique, with many disparate reasons for finding itself in a state of tumult, but there is one item on every list across whatever plagues the (insert name) SEC program near you.​

Nick Saban.
Alabama hired Saban in 2007 and by 2008 he had college football's modern-day juggernaut up and firing. He's won three national titles since while going for a fourth this season, will play in his fifth SEC championship game Saturday against Florida and has gone 57-5 in regular-season play, including 35-5 in the SEC, over the past five seasons.
Essentially, no one can beat Saban's Crimson Tide, at least not regularly.
This is a key reason why Georgia and its longtime, highly successful and high-class coach, Mark Richt, parted ways on Sunday and why LSU tried to fire its longtime, highly successful and high-class coach, Les Miles, on Saturday (public sentiment forced the administration to reverse course).

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Nick Saban has Alabama on its way to another SEC title game. (Getty Images)

Since 2008, Saban is 7-2 against Miles and LSU, including winning the past five, one of which was for the 2011 BCS championship. 'Bama's 30-16 Nov. 7 dismantling of previously unbeaten LSU led to the three-game slide that almost cost Miles his job, despite the Tigers being 8-3 overall. That Saban won the 2003 BCS title at LSU and recruited the upperclassmen that Miles won the 2007 title with, doesn't help.Since 2008, Saban is 3-0 against Richt and Georgia, including one for the 2012 SEC championship, which was the de facto national title game since the winner got to play undermanned Notre Dame ('Bama throttled the Irish 42-14). Alabama's October domination of previously unbeaten Georgia led to the Bulldogs losing two of their next three games, essentially ending Richt's tenure despite a 9-3 overall record.
That Kirby Smart, Saban's defensive coordinator, is the favorite to take over in Athens is the most obvious sign of Tuscaloosa envy.

This would be an if-you-can't-beat-him-hire-as-close-to-him-as-possible move.
Richt and Miles are great coaches, future Hall of Famers who conduct themselves well, are beloved by their players, and yet neither is as good as Saban. Of course, maybe no one else in college football is.
The closest competitor is Ohio State's Urban Meyer, who battled Saban head-to-head for part of his tenure at Florida. He won two national titles – including in 2008 just as Saban got it going – but then struggled with the pressure of the job. Much of that was self-induced – Meyer is famously tightly wound and recruited way too many troubled kids. Some of that pressure, though, had to come from the reality of dealing with an immoveable object across the way.
Meyer's Gators entered the 2009 SEC title game as defending national champions on a 22-game win streak. Saban and 'Bama won. Meyer was hospitalized that night with chest issues and a few weeks later briefly quit as coach, only to return the next day, but never truly recovered. A year later he left for good, rematerializing in Columbus in 2012 – his Buckeyes beat 'Bama in last season's playoff.
The Florida program has floundered about ever since. Whether it's true or not, there's a perception that Saban at least played a role in pushing Meyer out. Saban gets his latest chance to humble Florida on Saturday in the SEC championship game, as 'Bama enters as a heavy favorite to advance to the playoff. Of course, the Gators are there, in part, because they hired Jim McElwain … Saban's old offensive coordinator.
There's more, too.
Auburn is on its third coach since Saban's arrival, always searching for his kind of stability, despite winning a BCS title in 2010 and playing for another in 2013. The Tigers are a combined 38-37 in the other seasons since 2008. They just finished 6-6, with coach Gus Malzahn promising another fix.
Tennessee fired its long-time, national-championship-winning-yet-old-school coach, Phillip Fulmer, after the 2008 season. He'd already been blown out by Saban's Alabama twice. The program has done little to nothing ever since. Three separate coaches have yielded a combined 43-44 record, with perhaps Butch Jones ready to turn the corner next year. We'll see on the third Saturday of October.

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Mark Richt celebrates after his final game as Georgia coach. (AP)

Essentially, Saban is the sun in which the entire SEC rotates around – everyone trying to find the solution to Alabama's relentlessness.
He's the key figure in the surge the conference enjoyed as the commanding league in college football, but eventually he's left the place with such insecurity that it has been gutted back to a level toward average. What was once the unquestioned top-to-bottom best conference in the country now has just one elite team – Saban's of course.
It's not that the Tide can't be beat – they've lost an SEC game in each of the past six seasons. It's that they don't crumble after they do lose.
Sure, Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M might step up and shock them once (2012), but the Tide doesn't fall off a cliff. Alabama still won the national title that year and have beaten the Aggies ever since – the past two with a combined score of 100-23.
There is a consistency, whether it is the play on the field or through racking up No. 1 recruiting classes on an annual basis, often with recruits from Atlanta, New Orleans and central Florida – the backyards of Georgia, LSU and Florida. That creates its own form of wistfulness.
Maybe if SEC teams were truly taking turns winning titles – national and league – it would be easier to handle others' success.
It's almost certain if Alabama were a little more "good" than "great" that both Miles (in 2011, where the Tigers had to have a rematch with the Tide in the BCS) and Richt (2012) would have recent national championships that would have extended their goodwill.
They don't, though.
So Georgia dumped a good man and a good coach on Saturday, for a variety of reasons but mostly because, despite a 145-51 record, he couldn't make the ultimate leap to the title. And LSU tried to dump Miles despite a 111–32 record, because he couldn't do it either since 2007.
Miles survived, but the soap opera will be difficult to rally from as rival coaches use the job uncertainty with recruits and everyone in Baton Rouge tries to figure out who is backstabbing whom.
As the smoke circles from all round the South, Saban stands in the middle, preparing his team for another trip to Atlanta, another trip perhaps to the playoffs and another national title. It's business as usual, the process churning along.
"To have the opportunity to play for the SEC championship against a very good Florida team is certainly an opportunity that this team deserves and worked hard for," Saban said while actually smiling Saturday.
"It will certainly be a challenge for us."
Florida scored two points on Saturday in a loss to Florida State

 

[SECplayer]

Curious about a couple things:

Georgia is a top 10 job AT WORST. Main program in a very populous and talent rich state. SEC East is down. Georgia has a bug athletic budget, etc....

Why is Kirby Smart the main choice (other than him having ties to the program)? He doesn't seem like a very sexy hire and seemed like a bigger name 4-5 years ago whereas you rarely hear his name the last couple years in coaching searches.

By no means am I saying that would be a poor hire, I just expected Georgia to swing for the fences a little more as I imagine coaches would stand in line for that interview.

As the defensive coordinator for Saban, is there not at least some concern that Saban is still the one pulling those strings and responsible for those defenses?

 

[rolltide]

you rarely hear his name the last couple years in coaching searches.

you serious?

 

[cloverleaf]

"Word on the street" and we all know how much that's worth is Kirby Smart has
the South Carolina job if he wants it. Smart is SCs first choice and they have made
a serious commitment to him.

We shall see..................

 

[SECplayer]

you serious?

I definitely don't hear it with the frequency of 4-5 years ago.

Didnt hear it when the Florida job was open. Didn't hear his name as a candidate for TX. Obviously those are premier jobs but so is UGA. I think UGA is just as good a job as Florida.

 

[MackDonald]

Quite the testimonial Tide when you suggest the Conference rotates around a West Virginia Boy when you consider all the SEC traditions that are deeply rooted in Southern traditions dating way-back to its' founding. Oh well, I guess the State of West Virginia is "Southern enough" depending on where you hail from.

 

[MackDonald]

I definitely don't hear it with the frequency of 4-5 years ago.

Didnt hear it when the Florida job was open. Didn't hear his name as a candidate for TX. Obviously those are premier jobs but so is UGA. I think UGA is just as good a job as Florida.

I agree and the Student Athlete can get anything they wish Academically....

 

[MattyMatt]

"Word on the street" and we all know how much that's worth is Kirby Smart has
the South Carolina job if he wants it. Smart is SCs first choice and they have made
a serious commitment to him.

We shall see..................

Told yall this two years ago and got laughed at...big time boosters have been all about throwing him the big bucks for years now. I was too, honestly, but I'd rather have Herman now.

 

[MattyMatt]

Quite the testimonial Tide when you suggest the Conference rotates around a West Virginia Boy when you consider all the SEC traditions that are deeply rooted in Southern traditions dating way-back to its' founding. Oh well, I guess the State of West Virginia is "Southern enough" depending on where you hail from.

Call it the most northern southern state if you want. Doesn't matter, no one really cares...

 

[rolltide]

Told yall this two years ago and got laughed at...big time boosters have been all about throwing him the big bucks for years now. I was too, honestly, but I'd rather have Herman now.

not happening. he just signed a $3.2M/yr deal with Houston today. Probably waiting on the Texas job to open up next year

if Kirby is heading to UGA i have know idea who ends up at USCe. why not Richt?

 

[SECplayer]

not happening. he just signed a $3.2M/yr deal with Houston today. Probably waiting on the Texas job to open up next year

if Kirby is heading to UGA i have know idea who ends up at USCe. why not Richt?

Ha. I agree.

When it was thought that Les Miles was fired, I thought Mizzou would be wise to hire him the very same day LSU fires him. Might as well do the same for Richt and South Carolina.

 

[rolltide]

yikes, USCe site reporting they have reached out to Will Muschamp

not only did he nearly implode the UF program but his 2015 barn defense was worse than 2014's terrible defense in every category including nearly 1/2 the amount of TFL (49 vs 82). GL if this is who they settle on....

 

[MattyMatt]

not happening. he just signed a $3.2M/yr deal with Houston today. Probably waiting on the Texas job to open up next year

if Kirby is heading to UGA i have know idea who ends up at USCe. why not Richt?

I don't want Richt, and I sure to hell don't want Muschamp. Fuente was number 3 before being scooped up, so idk who is number 3 now. Bout to holla at some peeps and find out, though...I don't see how the folks im about to holla at would support either of the two mentioned, though...

 

[MattyMatt]

not happening. he just signed a $3.2M/yr deal with Houston today. Probably waiting on the Texas job to open up next year

if Kirby is heading to UGA i have know idea who ends up at USCe. why not Richt?

Yea, it sucks. Will take Charlie at SC to run the D when this happens though. In a perfect world, would have loved to see Herman and Charlie at SC.

 

[MattyMatt]

Pisses me off and I think it's a huge mistake, but somehow someway, it sounds as if Mark Richt is SC's next HC.

 

[MattyMatt]

Oh Willie, this shit is sad, but funny...

In the last ten seasons when a team holds an opponent under 120 yard offense the teams are 147-2. Will Muschamp has both of those loses...